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    Celine Music on Why ‘Materialists’ Skipping Festivals for Theaters Was the Proper Transfer — and the Irresistible Affect of ‘Intercourse and the Metropolis’

    David GroveBy David GroveJune 10, 202510 Mins Read
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    Celine Music on Why ‘Materialists’ Skipping Festivals for Theaters Was the Proper Transfer — and the Irresistible Affect of ‘Intercourse and the Metropolis’
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    The Monday morning I sat down with Celine Music in New York Metropolis, the place she lives and the place her hotly awaited new movie “Materialists” is about, took place an hour after opinions broke. Led by an interesting solid and doubling as a breezy romance and an incisive critique of recent relationship, “Materialists” is her second film as a director, and her first since “Previous Lives” turned Music into the Oscar-nominated belle of the 2023-2024 awards season.

    Reactions pouring in had been going effectively, as most opinions (together with IndieWire’s) reacted positively to author/director Music’s portrait of matchmaker-to-the-moneyed Lucy (Dakota Johnson), who balances the medical outlook on romance her job calls for with an sudden love triangle between herself, a lethally charming private-equity dealer and potential consumer named Harry (Pedro Pascal), and her less-polished, struggling-actor ex John (Chris Evans). However Music, she stated, doesn’t learn opinions. She leaves that process to her husband, “Challengers” and “Queer” screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes, to ship the highlights.

    THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME, from left: Michael Cera, Mia Threapleton, Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, 2025. © Focus Features /Courtesy Everett Collection
    SPIRITED AWAY, (aka SEN TO CHIHIRO NO KAMIKAKUSHI), Haku (in dragon form), Chihiro, 2001. (c) Walt Disney Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett Collection.

    “We do that for one another. Simply because [reading reviews] form of distances the film, too,” Music advised IndieWire. “The factor that you just made is that this factor that’s, in a approach, completely intangible. To see it in paper adjudicated and judged, even when it’s so constructive and great, which is true, too, nonetheless, it’s became phrases the place it’s being evaluated. There’s a little bit of it the place it feels unhappy, you already know? Even when it’s good. I really like listening to that it’s good. I like it when he reads me snippets, like, ‘OK, that is good,’ nevertheless it’s nothing to do [with] the film anymore.” She laughed, “It’s now not mine!”

    Music’s newest film takes the form of the traditional ’90s rom-coms (suppose Nora Ephron) or rom-drams (suppose James L. Brooks) no one makes for theaters anymore, nevertheless it has extra on its thoughts, and is maybe extra cannily sociological than its predecessors. For one, Lucy lives in debt and out of her means on an $80,000 annual wage (which, a tragic actuality, for a single New Yorker dwelling on their very own in a studio or a one-bedroom as she does is on the low finish of livable). For one more, her purchasers, together with Sophie (Zoë Winters), come to her frayed by the relationship market, doubtless arriving on the matchmaking service Adore (run by Marin Eire’s character) after putting out as soon as once more on the apps.

    Music’s breakout “Previous Lives” — a ruminative, what-might-have-been walk-and-talk a few married Korean-American immigrant (Greta Lee) who reconnects along with her childhood finest good friend and potential misplaced flame (Teo Yoo), premiered at Sundance 2023. Ecstatic acclaim and awards ambitions from A24 all of the sudden flung the first-time function filmmaker (who acquired her artistic begin within the New York theater world after shifting to Canada from Korea along with her household when she was 12) onto the long-haul competition and awards circuit, which calls for so much from anybody. It might be greater than a 12 months till she lastly attended the 2024 Oscars, the place “Previous Lives” was nominated for Greatest Image, however in between, she attended innumerable fests and awards ceremonies to characterize her vital darling.

    “I can think about, in 10 years, I’ll be like, ‘I can’t try this!’” Music laughed. “However the first film, I felt like I may do it, and I favored attending to know completely different festivals and completely different sides of the discharge internationally. How’s it doing in Spain? Once more, the subject was love, which I may speak about perpetually. It wasn’t like I used to be speaking about one thing tough.”

    Journalists speculated as to why A24 opted to skip festivals and take “Materialists,” which wrapped in New York in Spring 2024, on to theaters for a large launch this summer time. It’s opening on June 13 in round 2,800 theaters; “Previous Lives” began in 4 theaters with a platform launch two years in the past, enjoying finally at most in simply over 900 to gross $11 million by the tip of a nine-month run. (The fizzy rom-com-centered advertising on “Materialists,” in the meantime, might change into a bait-and-switch for what’s a deeper drama ultimately, however early social sentiment was excessive even earlier than opinions.)

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    Celine Music on the New York set of ‘Materialists’ with Dakota Johnson and Chris EvansCourtesy A24

    “They’re a studio. They’re those who inform me what they suppose. However they do care, greater than the opposite studios, about [creativity] and what the filmmaker needs. After they had been speaking about me — ‘that is the plan’ — I acquired actually excited. I used to be like, actually? You suppose? That’s so cool,” Music stated. “I wished a tremendous expertise like that, as a result of I had a tremendous, lovely expertise releasing ‘Previous Lives’ … With this film, I’m attempting to do one thing completely different. Equally, I wish to have a unique expertise releasing the film.”

    As for the movies and literature that impressed “Materialists” — which is a lot caught up within the arithmetic of affection, its operations and habits as an economically pushed equipment grounded in worth, mutual alternate, and funding — it was Brooks, Ephron, even Billy Wilder. “There was a complete period the place you simply get to point out as much as a film the place individuals are going by means of issues, and there’s a lot romance, and it’s going to be about love as a result of it’s the factor we’re all all for. It’s additionally about the way in which life works.”

    However Jane Austen, ever the literary grasp of tracing how romance is also and should be a sort of enterprise deal pivoted round a lady’s life station, additionally spoke to Music (whose educational research have included psychology, philosophy, and playwriting) and “Materialists.” “Victorian romances are actually in contact with the fabric actuality and the pressures of marriage, the pressures of partnering, particularly for girls whose solely approach on the time to have any energy or safety or prosperity was by means of marriage,” she stated. “In 2025, ladies can have jobs, they will have profitable salaries, a tremendous profession, however amazingly, there’s nonetheless materials pressures of partnership that also pervade in another way.”

    Ladies, she stated, like Lucy, who’s “not someone who was born wealthy and appears like she has to suit into the rich world that enables her to do the work that she does. She’s all the time going to reside slightly bit past her means, which is kind of relatable for New Yorkers: You set a funds for hire, after which you find yourself paying $500 extra,” Music stated. Lucy, although, due to her job duties and previous disappointments in love, can solely at first see romance and marriage when it comes to numbers, which is why when she meets Harry at a consumer’s glitzy wedding ceremony, she grills him about his earnings, his top, and his background with out even making an attempt to interrogate his essence as an individual, his pursuits past the standing signifiers that might make him an appropriate match.

    As “Materialists” is a love story about singles navigating New York Metropolis, in fact, “Intercourse and the Metropolis” and its personal Austenian contemplations of the metrics of relationship life and the way wealth and privilege play a consider courtship, come to thoughts not simply among the many viewers however for Music, too.

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    ‘Materialists’A24

    “The factor about ‘Intercourse and the Metropolis’ is that now, typically you rewatch it, and also you’re like, ‘These are some outdated concepts about gender!’” laughed Music, who like every romantic New Yorker and even aspiring ones raised herself artistically on the present to a level, too. “However a few of these stuff you understand, you grew up imagining what it’s wish to reside in an unconventional approach as a working girl. It’s one of many longest-lasting [stories about] being a lady and in addition being a lady who is just not essentially likeable 100% of the time. There’s some component the place it was all the time fully relatable, and then you definitely additionally fall in love with New York Metropolis by means of that present. You get to know every thing about the place you wish to go. They’ll be like, ‘In downtown…,’ and we’ll be like, ‘Ooh, downtown!’ And I’ll be watching from Toronto.”

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    “Intercourse and the Metropolis,” which Music praised as by no means “moralizing,” is a few fantasy of New York Metropolis, a fantasy of being a single individual, and the sort of fantasy Music each tributes and even debunks in “Materialists.” Her movie, although, takes us to components of New York we didn’t see within the HBO collection and even now on its HBO Max counterpart “And Simply Like That” or hardly ever in Manhattan love tales, like Brooklyn’s Bushwick, the place John stars in a brand new play (“Tom and Eliza,” named for Music’s personal 2016 prize-winning stage work), or the bayside Sundown Park, the place he lives in a cramped three-bedroom with two chaotic roommates.

    “After I scripted it in 2022, I believed he could be dwelling in Bushwick, after which, me and my location supervisor realized that Bushwick has been thus far gentrified that it simply wouldn’t make any sense,” she stated. “It might be too costly for him. I don’t give a fuck about this New York actual property. However that’s why we had been like, what’s a spot that’s not absolutely gentrified, the place as an actor you’ve got two roommates and pay that a lot, and are in a candy scenario and might’t transfer and the condo’s shitty?”

    Music might not give a fuck about New York actual property, however her film is as within the steadiness sheets endemic to human romances as it’s the feelings wanted to maintain them in any respect.

    “Have you ever change into so fully wrapped up within the numbers and the algorithm and the way in which that we objectify and commodify ourselves that that’s what we’re contemplating extra actual than real love?” Music puzzled, pondering her film’s true theme. “The character Sophie says, ‘I’m not merchandise. I’m an individual.’ What does it imply to be an individual proper now? Is it really the way in which it appears on Instagram? ‘Materialists’ is actually within the relationship market. That’s the job Lucy has, that’s the place the cynicism is from. The relationship market existed in Victorian romances — it was sort of native, the backyard events, the precise gossip. Now, the wedding market is on their telephones. You’ll be able to go to Instagram and examine your individual worth as a knowledge level … compared to everybody else.”

    She continued, “There may be an limitless self-commodification and self-objectification. All of the language we’ve got round self-improvement, for instance. Like, ‘All people’s getting Botox. Why don’t you get Botox? Do you not wish to spend money on your face?’ They speak about it as an funding. ‘You’re going to look so significantly better. You’re going to be improved.’ There’s a really insidious dialog about bettering your worth … on the finish of the day, what you’re attempting to say is that you just’re merchandise, you’re on the market, so you must enhance your worth, similar to the way you enhance something you’re attempting to promote. Every little thing comes right down to Sophie’s line: ‘I’m not merchandise. I’m an individual.’ It’s enjoyable to play the sport and objectify ourselves and one another. It’s catty. However the finish of that’s going to be dehumanization.”

    “Materialists” opens in theaters from A24 on Friday, June 13.



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